Why fiddle with our clocks? This ritual persecution of the sleepless must end | Simon Jenkins

The return from summer time to gloomy GMT owes nothing to nature and all to the Scots. Let us down south enjoy a little light

I usually wake at 5.30, which is earlier than I like but gives me two uninterrupted hours of work before the day begins. However, at the end of the month the government will make me wake at 4.30, which I find miserably early. Then, when I have grown used to treating 4.30 as 5.30, the government will next April tell me to wake at 6.30. This is crazy. If lighter evenings ...